I like it, even if this is probably only the Texas Legislature’s latest ploy to divert media and public attention from its real biennial business.
Which is, as always, making law for the lobbies that pay the campaign bills and ongoing perks of its members.
Besides, you want to drive fast? Light out on I-10 west of Junction where there is no speed limit. None. I have spun the old speedometer up past one hundred lots of times. And been passed by Corvettes and Porsches.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Corvette… mmm… never even been inside one of these.
P.S. Did they find more oil in Texas? Why the sudden encouragement of speed?
Have you ever noticed how many mule deer stand beside that highway? Have you ever noticed all the hamburger spread all over the road?
I’ll reserve my 100 mph for the daylight hours.
Snoop: No new discoveries that I know of, though with the price rise, I would expect more old Texas oil leases to be coming on line. The two-seat Corvette was one of Detroit’s most popular muscle cars back in the 1960s. My college roommate at Maryland in 1966 had an older one whose engine he repaired in the living room. When he finally got it back together, we took it out on the (then empty) Washington Beltway after midnight for a test drive. Winding it up to 100 and beyond.
JD: I should have mentioned that I have only driven I-10 that fast in the daytime. I’ve seen a few animal carcasses out there, but not many. I think the deer have learned to cross only at the few underpasses. Fortunately the land is almost dead flat and you can see for miles so there’s not much worry about hitting a big animal.